She is a WIM and represented Canada on 2nd board at the Women's Olympiad (2008), accumulating 6.5 points in 10 games played. She attended the Chess Olympiad (Women) (2010) on the top Canadian board (7 wins & a draw tallied 7.5 points in 11 games played (5) - earning a total Olympiad score of 22.5 points in 31 games overall). She represented the top Canadian seat at the Chess Olympiad (Women) (2014) (score: +7-3=1) in Norway and scored 8.5 (+7-0=3) in the 2nd seat at the 2016 women's Olympiad(9, 10).

She won the Hamilton 2010 Summer Open with 4½/5 and came in 10th at the U-10 (women's) World Youth chess championship in 2003. She rose to 31st overall in the world's top FIDE girls players (in June) and 28th in the continent-rank (women's) Americas section (in August) of 2014. She qualified to the FIDE Women's World Chess Championship (2015) but lost to Mariya Muzychuk in the first round.

waustad: <hhm>I was 130lb+ through most of my 20s. Reality strikes many of us and I bear too much resemblance to Karpov now. If I make it to the Sinq Cup, maybe you'll all get to see me on the vidcam. Pudgy grey haired (what's left) guy in his mid 60s. That probably describes a fair percentage of us. I have a beard so that makes
it a little easier picking which one.

Still, Yuanling Yuan gained 6.6 rating points in classical (now up to 2264). I don't think she has a rapid rating, and I doubt the rapid games count for a rapid rating, but Mariya Muzychuk is rated 2459 in rapid, so yeah...

(Canadian 2nd and 3rd board: Yuanling Yuan and Alexandra Botez, a Yale and a Stanford student).

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